Rating:  Summary: Book changed my life Review: This book completley changed my life...I read it in one night and Ive re read it many times since. It helped me to focus and see life in a new light. I keep 2 copies always...one I give to my friends and the other for me. His writing is so simple but thats almost the beauty of it. He reaches a certain part of you that makes you want to scream "I want to change" and like it or not...YOU WILL CHANGE! All for the better tooI love this book
Rating:  Summary: The most powerful book I have ever read Review: When I first read this book, I literally felt myself changing. It was like I woke up to the life I had been missing. I realized what was real and what wasn't, plus I began to understand the power of living in the present. I have now read the book many times and have passed it on to others. Purchasing this book was one of the best decisions I have ever made in my life.
Rating:  Summary: I'm embarrassed that it's one of my favorites. Review: Corny, melodramatic dialogue. Grating gee-whiz 1st person narrative. Heaps of wisdom copied from old and new books and stuffed like saugage meat into the back third of the book, as if the author was afraid to leave anything out. I'm embarrassed to admit that this is one of my favorite books. It's like chicken soup, spaghetti and marinara, apple sauce -- comfort food for the spirit. For more than 10 years, it's never been out of my stack of books-I-can't-live-without. I've reread it more times than I can count. This book is like a member of my family. It embarrasses me, but I love it.
Rating:  Summary: Certainly changed MY life Review: I knew almost nothing about this book when I picked it up. As I began reading I was amazed, rivited. I made my best friend read it, and we spoke of nothing else for weeks. It changed the way I think, act, eat, and even how I see the world. I found this book to be a priceless gem amidst the sea of meaningless "inspirational" and "self-help" books that swamp every bookstore. A must-read for anyone, anywhere!
Rating:  Summary: This book is like magic Review: I highly reccommend this book because it can indeed change lives. It will make you live a happier life. I realise how stubborn I've been after reading the book. It really inspired me.It taught me how easy it was to achieve real happiness.It has always been here with me, I just wasn't aware of it. It is here right now! All you have to do is to feel it!
Rating:  Summary: A book that really changes lives Review: Giving that book to me was one of the best things a friend ever did to me. I do now believe that I can survive this life - and I love it!!
Rating:  Summary: Caught up with me later! Review: Funny thing. When I read the book several years ago, I thought it was entertaining but certainly not earth-shattering. But now after time has passed and I have experienced more present moments and a few regrets from not "being there" I find myself appreciating the book more than I did at the time I read it. The "enlightenment" received has to resonate within the reader, I guess sometimes it may take a while to sink in! I am recommending the book now and am ready to read it again.
Rating:  Summary: Straightened up my way of living... Review: This is a guide-book in one of all ways to live your life and feel good about it. After I read it, it didn't take long before I started to enjoy every moment in life in a way I hadn't before. I didn't at once realize that it was my way of seing things that made me feel better. I thougt it was my new job or my wonderful girlfriend or our new house we'd just moved into...but it wasn't! Later it hit me that these kind of changings wasn't new to me. I'd been through bigger and more powerful things before without feeling any better. It was my way of SEING my life as an "All Time Happening" with no moment like the moment before. Sometimes I feel afraid of what is going to happen if I lose my way of "seing", my "strength", my way to guide myself through hard moments in my daily life, but for each time I get this worried it takes less time to get my personal "strength" back. If anyone would have told me 10 years ago that I, with all my heart and with love all around, should be leading projects and managing complex computer-networks I hadn't believed them...but my way of taking care of "The everyday enlightments" ...I don't know what to say...it really works, thats all! Sometimes I'd like to send my thanks to Soc, Mama Chia and Dan(the character) but I know that it is not important. What's important is to share this wonderful way of seeing to others, so they can start to live their life in their own way. I mean, this is not a school of how to live. It's a school of: HOW TO FIND YOUR OWN WAY OF TAKING CARE OF EVERY MOMENT IN YOUR LIFE, EVERYDAY! There isn't any "The only way". There's a thousand of ways and you can choose any of them, as long as you choose it and live it with your heart. I love you all, and that's for sure...
Rating:  Summary: wow Review: This book has dramatic effects on the reader ? i was in a perticulaly sensitive phase in my life, and the only light at the end of my tunnel was the book " the way of the peaceful warrior" . Reading the book has changed the way in which i view the world and other people...its as if everything has become clearer?
Its difficult for me to explain this to anybody who hasen't read the book - but im sure those who have, can relate to me.
i encourage anyone to read this book - to me it was more than a book...it was a personal hidden message calling out to my soul...im just happier than ive ever been?
you've made me believe in myself again?
DAN - ( you are my socrates) thank you for sharing your expereince, thank you for helping me = love kavita.
Rating:  Summary: I found this book disappointingly uninspiring Review: Based on the rave reviews and recommendations of friends, my expectation were high for this book. Unfortunately, Mr. Millman's ego-infused wonder at himself reminded me of Jerry Seinfeld's self-centered smirks at his own jokes.
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